The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-06-12

are familiarwe are not likely to put faith In his
other statements merely because they wear an
air OF novelty. Thus, In some preliminary para
graphs, he lays down propositions which
are notoriously at variance with tho facts.
He says that before the first quarter OF this
century had passed the banking firm OF Roths-
child, which had commenced business in an
UNDERSTANDING shop In the Judengasse OF
Frankfort was courted and favored by all the
reigning families of Europe" This. Of course.
ia laughably untrue. No Rothschild was ever
presented ct tho French court of Louis XVIII.
or Charles X. 1.-THE latter. 1t will be remembered.
reigned until 1830), or during the epoch In
question at the English. Prussian, Austrian, or
Russian courts. or the Bourbon courts Of Spain
and Naples. Everybody acquainted with the
social history Of France under Louis Philippe
knows how shocking even to the bourgeois
monarchy Of July was the proposal to set the
seal OF royal recognition ON q female NOM
Der Of tho Rothschild house. Unques-
tonably the Rothsohilds were welcome
to the Tuileries under Louis Napoleon. and
they were far moro respectable than the gang
of dissolute sdventursrs, male and female. that
found congenial harboraae at Compliance.
But, UP to this day, as q matter Of fact no
Rothschild OF the female sex has been received
at tho court OF Vienna, while 1t Is notorious
that II q lady member Of the house should with
difficulty gain admittanoe to court ball at
Berlin she would havsto decorate the wall. be-
cause nobody would dance with hor. Familiar
too, ia the experience Of another female NOM
Dor Of tho family. who. after tho firm had rem
dered great service to tho late Gear. HE'D to
St. Petersburg. relying on sign Of recognition
from the Empress. All she got from her was
stony glare.
30 much for the confidence to be placed In
the authors statements OF fact In 80 far as
We may Judge from tho assertion that before
1895 the Rothsohild firm was eourted by all
the roigning families In Europe" Nor 10 the
authors reputation for verscity and compe-
tenoe established by another proposition which
we find roundly affirmed upon another page.
I'm no other country" he says. do the Jews
enjoy such liberty and privileges as In Eng
land" Tho author has not declared himself to
DO speaking Of European countries alone. and
we are not therefore bound to assume that he
tacitly exospts the United States where, we
need not say, Israelites have the same rights
which are possessed by their fellow citizens of
any other race or religion. But even
with regard to Europe the statement
is not true. Not only have Israelites under the
French republic equal rights before the law,
but they have approached far more nearly to
absolute social and political equality than have
their co-religionists In England Tho Hebrew
Disraeli could never have bocome an English
Premier had he not been baptized Christian.
and professed to be q convert to Christianity.
In republican France the Hebrew Cremieux and
the Hebrew Jules Simon have had no need to
make such sbjurations Of their fathers faith IN
order to attain the highest political eminence.
As Mr.. Reeves will not mention his author
ities and as his unltness to be trusted on his
o,vo ooooupt In damon in hfa frat al han.
ter, We do not think it worth while to quote
stories. most OF which have an unpleasant
SAVIOR Of purchased adulation. and oil OF which,
for nught We know. may be apocryphal
Book Notes.
Tho last issue Of Tioknors Paper Series Of fiction
contains the popular novel; "A Namelsss HoblemAn."
which has reached Its seventeenth edition.
Part ~. Of the Franklin Square Song Collection (Har
peru L. entitled 1.-TWO Hundred favorits Songs and
Hymns intended for schools and homes nursery and
nresids. Many old fsvorites will b found IN It,
We have received Volumes cLxxxL to CLxxxIv.,
inclusive of tho Proceedings Of the Board Of Alder.
men" Of this city for the year 1885, and Volume LIY Of
ordinances resolutions &c. passed by that body and
approved by the Mayor
Tho Truth Seeker Company publish pamphlet entitled
"s the God Israel the True God ~ by Israel W. Groh
who arrives conclusion tina. tho Bible stories
human invention and that the God OF Israel as do
seribed In Holy Writ Y vicious dAbolieal monster.
The Haypors have issusd new and considerably en-.
largsd edition Of Mrs John xheFwoods manners and
Social Usagsa" Thh useful manual embodies the laws
Of social etiquette both In Europe and America and is
Altogsthsr the best work Of ts kind yet produced.
George Munro publishes rather poor trsnslstion Of
Jules vsrns's grotesqus romance. Robur the Con-
queror," which describes trip around the world on
nying machine Like all this authors work, II IL full Of
absurditiss fsnciful hypothesis and Inconsistencies
but interesting from the first page to the last
~ Iatf fpom tha EaSt "